Anyone tried TULA primers before?

[Nick_shoots_fast]

Picked some up at a gun show this weekend for really cheap. Wanted to know if they were any good. The dealer said he sells cases for $100 bucks which is a really sweet deal. 

[dapribek]

They worked fine for me, thought they might have been a little harder than the average primer. 

[bulm540]

extended firing pin is a must. 

 

[gng4life]

I had occasional misfires with them. Seating them deep along with the above suggestions would help. I used them only for practice rounds after the initial batch.

[M1A4ME]

In the pistols (mostly CZs) not a single issue.

 

In the AR15's we've had 4 or 5 duds  all in the same rifle, but the rifle wasn't mine and I didn't tear it down, clean it, examine or know if the firing pin was replaced later.

 

Oh, pistol primers for the pistols and small rifle primers for the AR15 ammo.

[Hi-Power Jack]

My 2011 fires them 100%    

 

My BHP fires them 50%.     

[bowenbuilt]

I have shot thousands of them. Extended firing pins are a must but i never had any issues. They all went pop. Stock parts are 100%, lightening the springs needs an EX FP for 100%. They are cheap and as hard as the CCI's i have used. They need a little extra seating pressure to make them as sensitive as possible. Knowing all of this to start with, i never had one not go off.

Edited December 24, 2019 by bowenbuilt

[Trini]

Large pistol in several 2911's with no problems.  Small pistol used in G34, STI and P 16..

[NETim]

I've managed to set off a few thousand in my G17 with a 5lb striker spring and stock OEM Glock striker.  No issues.  Loading on a 650 and ensuring I have them seated well.  

[Brooke]

Name brand primers cost 3-3.2 cents each. Saving 0.2 -0.4 cents per round with crappy primers makes no sense. Penny wise and pound foolish. Spend money to enter and travel to matches and have a primer fail makes no sense.. Buy good stuff and pay attention when assembling it. 

[Nick_shoots_fast]

51 minutes ago, Brooke said:

Name brand primers cost 3-3.2 cents each. Saving 0.2 -0.4 cents per round with crappy primers makes no sense. Penny wise and pound foolish. Spend money to enter and travel to matches and have a primer fail makes no sense.. Buy good stuff and pay attention when assembling it. 

 

51 minutes ago, Brooke said:

Name brand primers cost 3-3.2 cents each. Saving 0.2 -0.4 cents per round with crappy primers makes no sense. Penny wise and pound foolish. Spend money to enter and travel to matches and have a primer fail makes no sense.. Buy good stuff and pay attention when assembling it. 

Nope. I can get Tula primers for $100 bucks a case and even less if I buy 3 or more cases at a time so...there’s that..

[Nick_shoots_fast]

So far so good!

 

loaded up 250 rounds with the Tula stuff for practice and they all went bang! 
 

Still won’t shoot them for majors. Locals, maybe but I want to get more rounds fired. Figured I’ll spread the news as time progresses. 

[Yagi]

100% - Just make sure you seat them well.

 

 

[Steve RA]

All I use in 9mm, .45ACP and .223/5.56.  Pistols are 1911s with stock firing pins and 17lb mainsprings.  Custom AR-15.  Only use SRMP and have never had any problems with them.  I do prime with a hand primer and so they are all seated well.

[Butterpuc]

they run 100% in my 1911.  I would not trust them in my striker fire guns.

[CPD7119]

Use them for practice rounds, that way if they don't go bang you'll at least get some weapon manipulation training out of it. 

[Nick_shoots_fast]

32 minutes ago, CPD7119 said:

Use them for practice rounds, that way if they don't go bang you'll at least get some weapon manipulation training out of it. 

Very true! 

[ben b.]

They worked great for me. I haven’t seen any for sale in a while; a friend told me they stopped importing them. 

 

I loved when they were copper-colored SR primers, always knew which AR brass was mine. 

[Sarge]

1 hour ago, ben b. said:

They worked great for me. I haven’t seen any for sale in a while; a friend told me they stopped importing them. 

 

I loved when they were copper-colored SR primers, always knew which AR brass was mine. 

Correct. Tula primers have not been available for a number of years.

[nhyrum]

I'm pretty sure Tula primers are pretty sought after in the benchrest community. One of those Russian/Eastern Bloc countries.

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[NuJudge]

They were made in Russia, by Murom.  Sanctions caused them to no longer be importable.  My experience with them has been excellent, but that is mostly with rifle primers.  

[hiker88]

I used a few thousand Tula spp when they were available. No issues at all.

[M1A4ME]

Well, had some failures to fire a couple weeks back in the XD .45.  Some would go off the 2nd time, some would not.

 

Brought those 2 home to take down and look over but haven't gotten around to it yet.

[Nick_shoots_fast]

Forgot to give you guys a report back. I shot the 1k primers that I got from the December gun show. No hiccups and they all loaded great. So great that the gun show this past weekend I picked up 3k more!  Couldn’t pass up the $25 a 1k for great performance. I wouldn’t shoot them in a major match yet, I prefer cci, but I’ll use them for everything else. 
 

At least with my experience with Tula, I will be buying again and again. 

[Glockster1]

On 12/22/2019 at 6:49 PM, Atlasguy321 said:

Picked some up at a gun show this weekend for really cheap. Wanted to know if they were any good. The dealer said he sells cases for $100 bucks which is a really sweet deal. 

 

Yes. They are good. However, I get literally zero failure to ignite issues with CCI, but I get around two failures to fire out of 2,000 TULA primers with a good deep hit. I only use them for practice or plinking. I use the CCI ones for competitions that I pay a lot of money to attend.